River Gum Ward councillor Wayne Smith, Casey’s Global Friendships member Michele Halsall, Casey mayor Lorraine Wreford, Wall of Global Friendships Working Group member Ann Pathmasiri and Springfield Ward councillor Sam Aziz with the three national awards which Casey scored at the 2010 Sister Cities Australia National Conference.THE City of Casey was recently awarded three national awards at the 2010 Sister Cities Australia National Conference last month.
More than 100 delegates from all around Australia and overseas attended the conference in Rockhampton which challenged, motivated and inspired them to make their sister city programs and relationships more “real, relevant and rewarding”.
Casey won a number of Sister Cities Australia National Awards for community involvement for the Wall of Global Friendships project, youth project for the Casey-Ermera friendship schools concert and assistance to a Sister City for the Friends of Ermera Letefoho water rehabilitation project.
City of Casey mayor Lorraine Wreford said the City of Casey’s Sister City relationships with Berwick-upon-Tweed in the UK and Springfield, Ohio, in the USA, and Friendship City relationship with Ermera had provided many rewarding opportunities for cultural, economic and educational exchange.
